Chapter 70

“Bingchen Dew is also very tasty—can you sell me a jar?” Su Linyuan asked.

“I have plenty of Bingchen Dew at home—you can send your family to my place and ask for my eldest brother, Su Jian.” Su Jin said.

“Perfect—I’ll have my family pick up a jar later.” Su Linyuan was satisfied.

Good things should be gathered in bulk for home use.

Otherwise, how could he possibly catch up to people like Su Wuji?

Several days passed quietly.

The day before the rest day.

After lunch, everyone returned to the Third Classroom.

Su Wuji happily stepped onto the podium: “I’ve got good news—I’ve broken through to Body Refining Level One! Hah! Surprised? Shocked?”

Hearing his utterly vain laughter, everyone froze.

“You broke through Body Refining Level One in just five days?” Yang Guan was completely shattered.

He thought: How am I supposed to keep up with this?

Su Jin silently calculated: she herself had taken over half a month to go from nothing to Body Refining Level One—though, admittedly, she’d used Heartstone Blueberry Dew to assist the breakthrough.

But look at Su Wuji—truly gifted beyond measure.

This guy’s talent isn’t just focused on Qi Refining.

“I still need two more days to break through—you’ve pulled ahead of me again,” Su Cheng sighed.

Su Yunhu’s face twitched uncontrollably.

One breaks through Body Refining Level One in five days, another in seven. You’re all non-human!!!

Su Linyuan’s face twitched too.

He’d long known his cultivation talent paled beside theirs, and had long prepared himself to spend his days chasing after this group.

But when he heard Su Wuji gleefully announce his breakthrough to Body Refining Level One, his heart still trembled.

So unfair.

In front of you all, I feel utterly helpless.

“Big Brother Wuji, keep pushing! Whether our class secures a spot in the Beast Blood Purification Pool depends on you now,” Su Yunhu suddenly shouted.

“I’ll try my best—you should too. You’re not seriously planning to loaf around for a whole month, are you? Hurry up and break through to Qi Refining Level Two. I heard the students in the Second Classroom are training like mad—they’re all racing to break through before you do, just to humiliate you.”

Su Wuji’s sharp tongue was back in action.

Su Yunhu: “...”

“I’ll break through to Qi Refining Level Two in six or seven days,” Su Linyuan suddenly said.

“Me too,” Yang Guan added.

“So if you fall behind our progress, you won’t be fourth in class—you’ll be sixth,” Yang Guan said coldly.

Hearing this, Su Yunhu froze completely.

“Today it’s me and Yang Guan overtaking you—but soon others will too. What then? Will you just crouch behind the top ten?” Su Linyuan said. “If you don’t give it your all, you’ll become the class cautionary tale.

Everyone will say: That lazy, aimless, never-cultivates Su Yunhu!”

Su Yunhu suddenly let out a loud cry and bolted out of the Third Classroom alone.

“You two were a bit too harsh,” Su Cheng frowned.

“If we don’t hit hard, he won’t wake up. In the clan school, you either fight your way up—or you crash down.

If he doesn’t push himself now, he’ll lose all chance to recover.

Who will wait for him?

Everyone is pushing, everyone is cultivating furiously.

Even I—I only allow myself two hours of sleep a day. I dare not sleep a single minute longer,” Su Linyuan said coldly.

“You can’t play around and still keep your grades up. He doesn’t have that kind of talent.”

Su Wuji added: “No matter how gifted you are, without effort, it’s all meaningless.”

“Su Cheng, collect Su Yunhu’s array plate and gear—return them to him when he comes tomorrow,” Su Wuji said.

“Understood.”

Liu Shi soon learned that Su Yunhu had left the clan school early. She hurried over to find out why.

After learning the reason, she immediately contacted Su Yunhu’s parents.

She told his father to come pick him up.

The next day was the rest day; before dawn, Su Jin woke up.

After equipping herself, she went to find her eldest brother, Su Jian.

Su Jian hadn’t gotten up yet!!

Half-asleep, he heard a rapid, urgent knocking.

“Big brother, it’s time—why aren’t you up yet?”

“Big brother, didn’t we agree to leave the city today?”

“Big brother, are you awake yet?”

Su Jian’s head throbbed from the pounding.

He thought: I’ll never have a third child again.

Raising kids is exhausting.

“Coming, coming—I’m up!”

Su Jian groaned as he dragged himself out of bed, then left with a resentful expression under his wife’s teasing gaze.

Finally, the siblings ate a simple breakfast, slung their tool bags over their shoulders, and left home.

They were to wait for the carriage at the western gate of the clan settlement.

Su Jin didn’t expect to see Su Yunhu and his father waiting there. Su Yunhu glanced at her guiltily, then pulled his father into the crowd.

Soon, Su Jian met his two teammates, and together they found the chariot they had reserved.

He led Su Jin aboard.

His two teammates sat across from them.

A long, narrow table was fixed in the center of the carriage.

“Didn’t expect you to come back, Su Jian? We thought you’d quit extracting Wood Essence Qi for good,” one of the two young men—a fat, dark-skinned youth—joked as soon as he boarded.

“I didn’t plan to return. But my little sister’s started learning Wood Essence Qi extraction—can’t practice without trees.

But if we go alone, they won’t let us into the forest grounds.

So I had to rejoin a team. After thinking it over, I figured your squad was safest.

I trust you two.

As for the others—I wouldn’t dare team up with them,” Su Jian grinned.

“You’re too clever. The forest grounds have been anything but peaceful lately—within two months, several forest teams have been wiped out entirely.

Or else a few survivors escaped, claiming they encountered a shadow monster.”